Francisci Willughbeii Armig. De historia piscium libri quatuor : Jussu & sumptibus Societatis Regiæ Londinensis editi. In quibus non tantum de piscibus in genere agitur, sed & species omnes, tum ab aliis traditæ, tum novæ & nondum editæ bene multæ, naturæ ductum servante methodo dispositæ, accurate describuntur. Earumque effigies, quotquot haberi potuere, vel ad vivum delineatæ, vel ad optima exemplaria impressa; artifici manu elegantissime in æs incisæ, ad descriptiones illustrandas exhibentur. Cum appendice historias & observationes in supplementum operis collatas complectente. Totum opus recognovit, coaptavit, supplevit, librum etiam primum & secundum integros adjecit Johannes Raius e Societate Regia.
| Author/creator | Willughby, Francis |
| Other author | Ray, John, 1627-1705. |
| Other author | Somer, Paul van, 1649-1694, engraver. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Oxonii : E Theatro Sheldoniano, Anno Dom. 1686. [i.e. 1743?] |
| Description | 10 unnumbered pages, 343, 1 unnumbered page;30, 14 unnumbered pages;12 unnumbered pages, 209 unnumbered pages or 187 unnumbered leaves of plates ; 2⁰. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text online |
| Subjects |
| Uniform title | De historia piscium |
| Variant title | De historia piscium libri quatuor |
| Variant title | Francisci Willoughby Icthyographia |
| Variant title | Icthyographia |
| General note | With an additional title page, engraved, "Francisci Willoughby Icthyographia ... Sumptibus Societatis Regalis Londinensis, 1685", signed "Paul van Somer jnuent et fecit Londini". This is often placed as a title page to the plates when they are bound following the text or in a separate volume. |
| General note | "Appendix ad historiam naturalem piscium" (caption title) has separate pagination and register. "Index piscium in Ithyographia Willughbeiana ... curâ Cromwelli Mortimeri ..." (caption title) has separate register (a-c², signatures in square brackets) and colophon "Londini: prostant venales apud Carolum Davis ... & Thomam Woodward ... Regalis Societatis typographos. M.DCC.XL." |
| General note | Sequences of plates occur printed on rectos and versos both (state 1) or on rectos only (state 2). State 1 plates may include eight blank leaves. The four plates numbered "Appendicis tab. 5[-8]" may have fish identifications provided with pasted-on letterpress-printed slips (state a) or as names engraved in the plates with the images (state b). State b presumably constitutes a separate printing of the plates. |
| General note | Includes errata leaf and indexes. |
| General note | Reproduction of original from "Department of Special Collections, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas". |
| References | Keynes, 47 |
| References | English Short Title Catalog, N51867. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. |
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